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What does keel over mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word keel over? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, nautical, also figuratively) Of a vessel: to roll so far on its side that it cannot recover; to capsize or turn turtle.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To collapse in a faint; to black out, to swoon.
  3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To die.
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Some of the boats keel over and sink, spilling pilgrims and fuel into the harbour.
I learned from them that you just can't keel over and give in.
But I'm also trying not to just keel over and topple onto the carpet.
We won't let you keel over in the ocean of our more than 600 combination possibilities.
We must give poor countries the right to protect their markets in sectors that are weak and which would keel over in the buffeting of free trade.
In the seconds before the boat began to keel over, he leapt into the merchant ship.

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